Re: Hair

I've been taking horsetail, nettle leaf, celery, and bamboo for silica/ silicon for better hair growth. I had metal frame eyeglasses years ago, it reacted very badly with my skin, and the very small spot where it itches on my scalp, for years, now has a couple white hairs. So you are correct, metals definitely are expelled in hair, as I have only maybe a dozen white hairs that I can see.

Do you know of any bad effects of you take too much of any of these? The things that I have been finding have been saying between 10 to 40 milligrams of silica is what is recommended, and one horsetail extract pill has 37 milligrams. I know I shouldn't be taking pills, but mix sand and limestone into the dirt under the plants that I eat, they will eventually break up the sand and uptake the silica.

I do find horsetail around occasionally, and I usually carefully move one plant quite far away so I can start another colony. I haven't researched the plant yet, but I know it always grows very near water, and reproduces by spores, that are way too small to see.

I'm planning on growing a lot of cattails like this as well, I pick seeds when I find new plants.


I always buy damaged/ cut bags of raw popcorn seeds at my grocery store job, and I'll be eating the grass before it gets to big to chew. As I read years ago, most grass leaves have a lot of silica, sometimes the dry stems of the random grass that I see, it's shiny in the sunlight in the winter. Or I could try to make a corn alternative to sorguhm, chip down the big stalks when they are still green, run them through a juicer, and boil down the juice to a consistency of molasses. My dad said years ago, I haven't tried it yet, but if you take a big bite of a corn stalk that is still green, it has a lot of sugar, since it's in the same family as sugar cane and sorguhm.